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1 of 3 In this Dec. 16, 2020, photo released by Harvey Smith, he poses for a photo as he makes his round on the U.S.-owned Horizon Spirit getting overhauled at the dock in Nantong, eastern China's Jiangsu Province. The crew of the Horizon Spirit plan to spend Christmas looking after their 800-foot (240-meter) long container ship in a southern Chinese shipyard while they are barred, like thousands of sailors worldwide, from going ashore due to coronavirus restrictions. (Harvey Smith via AP) 2 of 3 In this photo taken Nov. 10, 2020, and released by Harvey Smith, crew...

Share THE New Year celebration started on a sour note in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) when dare-devil pirates killed four armed guards and kidnapped two Russians and one Indian aboard a Nigerian-flagged Hopper dredger, Ambika on January 2, 2020. The 2,153 Gross Tonnage Ambika was attacked as she was navigating three nautical miles from the mouth of the Ramos River which is just nine nautical miles east of the Forcados Terminal in Nigerian waters.   Deep Blue Project With insecurity rearing its ugly head very early in the year on Nigeria’s waterways, the Federal Government, in February, at a pr...

Singapore’s sea cargo one bright spot amid pandemic While Covid-19 has severely affected many aspects of transport, Singapore’s sea cargo volume has been doing well, remaining close to pre-pandemic levels. Compared with the start of the year, the volume of sea cargo here stood at 97 per cent in November, according to figures of Singapore’s air, land and sea sectors released by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) in a Facebook post yesterday. Commenting on the performance of the maritime sector in a separate Facebook post, Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said it was a “bright spark during s...

Covid-19 pandemic has stranded 400,000 seafarers and triggered a humanitarian crisis Border closures and other restrictions have forcing seafarers into indefinite service, unable to even take shore leave. Representational image. | STR / AFP It has been rightly described as a humanitarian crisis and a modern form of forced labour. In the early months of 2020, stranded cruise ships became a stark symbol of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Now it is seafarers stranded on cargo ships. Before the coronavirus crisis, about 100,000 of these crew changed over each month, typically aft...

COVID-19 restrictions in China strand merchant sailors aboard ships The crew of the US-owned Horizon Spirit expect to spend Christmas looking after their 240m long container ship in a southern Chinese shipyard, barred, like thousands of sailors worldwide, from going ashore due to COVID-19 restrictions. Most of the 22-member crew that left Los Angeles on Oct 22 have been confined to the ship while it is being overhauled in Nantong in eastern China, said its third mate, Harvey Smith. Normally, they would have moved to a hotel to avoid welding, painting and other work. “Just now, the paint fum...